The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

Suraj Shenoy no published score: only 4 usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ · coarse estimate ≈3.5/5 from 4 raw tape exchanges record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q So you saw this green can, you were like, IPA is great. Yeah. Then?

A So I read the can, I was like, this is insane. Like, how can we not make product like this? And I was always like, Thinking within the companies, what can you do to create new product? I was very like trying to shake those within that organization. I've just was, I think, waited. I remember like pacing in the flight, wanting for the doors to open. When I landed, I just went to the brewery that made it. Then I just kept traveling, going from one brewery to other. Then I, I must have on that trip of three weeks, I must have gone to maybe two or three breweries a day. I didn't even meet my cousins. I said, like, I was totally obsessed by the idea. And it was like, everyone was very open, friendly. The whole culture part of it was very different from how, like how Indian liquor companies were very secretive. The movement was called copy left.

AI assessment note: “When I landed, I just went to the brewery that made it.”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q So we start with, take a second to think about it. Who would like to go first? Idea. Price point, product, category.

A So I think one of the best opportunities right now is if you think about large multinationals, the value which is available in the Indian beer market, I'll only speak about beer right now, lies in the category where the Indian consumers slowly upgraded from the kingfishers of the world now to a Budweiser or Henneke. They've already come to a 20, 25%. This is currently roughly around a 55 to sixty million case industry. That's the price point where you actually make money proportionate to the investment and everything. So it's, it's, it delivers better margin. If you now can take this consumers already here. So the consumer psychology is that that that consumer wants something better. Take it to a destination product. There may be multiple destinations. So you can upgrade a consumer who's seeking quality is always a great starting point. I think, look at Price elasticity. Don't go to a hundred percent markup on an existing large category. Category building is absolutely not possible.

AI assessment note: “the value which is available in the Indian beer market, I'll only speak about beer”

Answered raw tape D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85

Q Quality is a factor of what in beer?

A So we are, what we do, I can speak, you know, because the word craft is also very broad and liberally used, but I mean, I personally take it A lot of seriousness. And so we are absolutely, uh, like natural or nothing business where we don't even use any kind of extract or even fruit, which has like processed by any industrial company. We would rather go straight and use as much as whole produce as possible. So we'll source our grains. We'll work very closely. So every part of your, uh, the, the beer that you're drinking, if you read our label, All the ingredients you will be able to know. They're all which you would find in your kitchen. It's nothing which is industrial or something. So that's because we are not really aiming to produce, you know, one lakh cases. Or from one, like, you know, you're not scaling, you're not, so the bigger breweries probably would from one batch, they would produce 20,000 cases and we would probably produce maybe six, 700 cases from one batch. So we work on slightly trimmed down equipment. We've customized what scale is good enough where the quality doesn't get affected and work to make sure that you are, so, you know, you're delivering a product that's, that has a very good Differentiation at the same time, it also, you know, has that value. We are Indians at the end of the, if I'm going to pay 20 rupees more, I want to taste it. I want to feel i…

AI assessment note: “we are absolutely, uh, like natural or nothing business where we don't even use”

Partly raw tape D 2 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.00

Q So what was the opportunity you saw in Goa Brewing? What sets you apart from the rest?

A While I was working, I, the only thing I used, whatever income that I got was to travel. So I initially with the small salaries, I could travel in Southeast Asia, just backpacked. And when I finally got to go to the US, I think this was somewhere around 2013, 14. I was on a flight, uh, from London to New York and like a United Airways, like the cheapest ticket right at the back, you know, so, you know, that's like, you're happy about it. That's luxury. And I'm sitting there and I'm waiting for the trolley with like, you know, the, with the drinks coming and I'm just very observant of people. So I always, I was just looking and there were all these kids who looked very hipster. Hipsterism was in and all the, you know, uh, what do you call the turtle shell, uh, frames and everybody was picking up this green can. And I was just super curious. And this is taking so long with a transatlantic flight.

AI assessment note: “I was on a flight, uh, from London to New York and like a United Airways”

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